Building up strain in colloidal metal nanoparticle catalysts

Initial stages of misfit stress relaxation in composite nanostructures through generation of rectangular prismatic dislocation loops

(2015) M.Yu. Gutkin et al.   ACTA MATERIALIA

Platinum Multicubes Prepared by Ni2+-Mediated Shape Evolution Exhibit High Electrocatalytic Activity for Oxygen Reduction

(2015) Liang Ma et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Mesoscopic Constructs of Ordered and Oriented Metal–Organic Frameworks on Plasmonic Silver Nanocrystals

(2015) Yingbo Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Use of Reduction Rate as a Quantitative Knob for Controlling the Twin Structure and Shape of Palladium Nanocrystals

(2015) Yi Wang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Anisotropic atom displacement in Pd nanocubes resolved by molecular dynamics simulations supported by x-ray diffraction imaging

(2015) P. Scardi et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Octahedral Pt2CuNi Uniform Alloy Nanoparticle Catalyst with High Activity and Promising Stability for Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2015) Changlin Zhang et al.   ACS Catalysis

Synthesis and Characterization of Pd@Pt–Ni Core–Shell Octahedra with High Activity toward Oxygen Reduction

(2014) Sang-Il Choi et al.   ACS Nano

Electrochemically Induced Surface Metal Migration in Well-Defined Core–Shell Nanoparticles and Its General Influence on Electrocatalytic Reactions

(2014) Casey N. Brodsky et al.   ACS Nano

Shaped Pd–Ni–Pt Core-Sandwich-Shell Nanoparticles: Influence of Ni Sandwich Layers on Catalytic Electrooxidations

(2014) Brian T. Sneed et al.   ACS Nano

Reduction by water for eco-friendly, capping agent-free synthesis of ultrasmall platinum nanocrystals

(2014) Guh-Hwan Lim et al.   CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS

Oxidative etching for controlled synthesis of metal nanocrystals: atomic addition and subtraction

(2014) Ran Long et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Palladium Single-Crystalline Nanoparticles: The Effect of HCl Oxidative Etching and Facet-Dependent Catalytic Properties

(2014) Jinfeng Zhang et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Controlling the Size and Composition of Nanosized Pt-Ni Octahedra to Optimize Their Catalytic Activities toward the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2014) Sang-Il Choi et al.   ChemSusChem

Seed-Mediated Growth of Gold Nanocrystals: Changes to the Crystallinity or Morphology as Induced by the Treatment of Seeds with a Sulfur Species

(2014) Yiqun Zheng et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Aberration Corrected Electron Microscopy Study of Bimetallic Pd–Pt Nanocrystal: Core–Shell Cubic and Core–Frame Concave Structures

(2014) Ning Lu et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Nanocatalyst Superior to Pt for Oxygen Reduction Reactions: The Case of Core/Shell Ag(Au)/CuPd Nanoparticles

(2014) Shaojun Guo et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Carbon Monoxide-Assisted Size Confinement of Bimetallic Alloy Nanoparticles

(2014) Chunhua Cui et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Unique Excavated Rhombic Dodecahedral PtCu3 Alloy Nanocrystals Constructed with Ultrathin Nanosheets of High-Energy {110} Facets

(2014) Yanyan Jia et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Atomic Layer-by-Layer Deposition of Pt on Pd Nanocubes for Catalysts with Enhanced Activity and Durability toward Oxygen Reduction

(2014) Shuifen Xie et al.   NANO LETTERS

Multimetallic Core/Interlayer/Shell Nanostructures as Advanced Electrocatalysts

(2014) Yijin Kang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Facile synthesis of Au–Pd core–shell nanocrystals with systematic shape evolution and tunable size for plasmonic property examination

(2014) Chun-Ya Chiu et al.   Nanoscale

Heterogeneous nucleation and shape transformation of multicomponent metallic nanostructures

(2014) Soon Gu Kwon et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Au-Pd Alloy Octapods with High Electrocatalytic Activity for the Oxidation of Formic Acid

(2014) Liang-Bing Wang et al.   PARTICLE & PARTICLE SYSTEMS CHARACTERIZATION

Element-specific anisotropic growth of shaped platinum alloy nanocrystals

(2014) Lin Gan et al.   SCIENCE

Highly Crystalline Multimetallic Nanoframes with Three-Dimensional Electrocatalytic Surfaces

(2014) C. Chen et al.   SCIENCE

Misfit dislocation loops in hollow core–shell nanoparticles

(2014) M.Yu. Gutkin et al.   SCRIPTA MATERIALIA

Size-dependent oxygen reduction property of octahedral Pt–Ni nanoparticle electrocatalysts

(2014) Changlin Zhang et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry A

One-Pot Synthesis of Trimetallic Au@PdPt Core–Shell Nanoparticles with High Catalytic Performance

(2013) Shin Wook Kang et al.   ACS Nano

Oxygen Reduction Reaction Performance of [MTBD][beti]-Encapsulated Nanoporous NiPt Alloy Nanoparticles

(2013) Joshua Snyder et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Synergistic Catalysis over Bimetallic Alloy Nanoparticles

(2013) Ashish Kumar Singh et al.   ChemCatChem

Synthesis of Triple-Layered Ag@Co@Ni Core-Shell Nanoparticles for the Catalytic Dehydrogenation of Ammonia Borane

(2013) Fangyuan Qiu et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

The Effect of Lattice Strain on the Catalytic Properties of Pd Nanocrystals

(2013) Chun-Hong Kuo et al.   ChemSusChem

Controlled Synthesis of Nanosized Palladium icosahedra and Their Catalytic Activity towards Formic-Acid Oxidation

(2013) Tian Lv et al.   ChemSusChem

Pt monolayer on Au-stabilized PdNi core–shell nanoparticles for oxygen reduction reaction

(2013) Kurian A. Kuttiyiel et al.   ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA

Shape-selected bimetallic nanoparticle electrocatalysts: evolution of their atomic-scale structure, chemical composition, and electrochemical reactivity under various chemical environments

(2013) Chunhua Cui et al.   FARADAY DISCUSSIONS

Electronic structure effects in catalysis probed by X-ray and electron spectroscopy

(2013) Sarp Kaya et al.   JOURNAL OF ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY AND RELATED PHENOMENA

Origin and shape evolution of core–shell nanoparticles in Au–Pd: from few atoms to high Miller index facets

(2013) Nabraj Bhattarai et al.   JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH

Elastic Strain Energy Effects in Faceted Decahedral Nanoparticles

(2013) Srikanth Patala et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Finding Correlations of the Oxygen Reduction Reaction Activity of Transition Metal Catalysts with Parameters Obtained from Quantum Mechanics

(2013) Ted H. Yu et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Computational Design of Core/Shell Nanoparticles for Oxygen Reduction Reactions

(2013) Xu Zhang et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Pt-Based Core–Shell Catalyst Architectures for Oxygen Fuel Cell Electrodes

(2013) Mehtap Oezaslan et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Quantitating the Lattice Strain Dependence of Monolayer Pt Shell Activity toward Oxygen Reduction

(2013) Xiaoming Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Nanoscale-Phase-Separated Pd–Rh Boxes Synthesized via Metal Migration: An Archetype for Studying Lattice Strain and Composition Effects in Electrocatalysis

(2013) Brian T. Sneed et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Quantitative Analysis of the Coverage Density of Br– Ions on Pd{100} Facets and Its Role in Controlling the Shape of Pd Nanocrystals

(2013) Hsin-Chieh Peng et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A facile solution approach for the preparation of Ag@Ni core–shell nanocubes

(2013) Hemei Ping et al.   MATERIALS LETTERS

Synthesis of Rhodium Concave Tetrahedrons by Collectively Manipulating the Reduction Kinetics, Facet-Selective Capping, and Surface Diffusion

(2013) Shuifen Xie et al.   NANO LETTERS

Synthesis and Characterization of 9 nm Pt–Ni Octahedra with a Record High Activity of 3.3 A/mgPt for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2013) Sang-Il Choi et al.   NANO LETTERS

Understanding and Controlling Nanoporosity Formation for Improving the Stability of Bimetallic Fuel Cell Catalysts

(2013) Lin Gan et al.   NANO LETTERS

Compositional segregation in shaped Pt alloy nanoparticles and their structural behaviour during electrocatalysis

(2013) Chunhua Cui et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Origin of surface stress on late transition metal surfaces:Ab initiolocal stress and tight-binding model

(2013) Yoshinori Shiihara et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

The Role of Platinum in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells

(2013) Oliver T. Holton et al.  

Copper Can Still Be Epitaxially Deposited on Palladium Nanocrystals To Generate Core–Shell Nanocubes Despite Their Large Lattice Mismatch

(2012) Mingshang Jin et al.   ACS Nano

Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Pt Nanocrystals: The Role of Metal Carbonyls

(2012) Yijin Kang et al.   ACS Nano

Morphology and Lateral Strain Control of Pt Nanoparticles via Core–Shell Construction Using Alloy AgPd Core Toward Oxygen Reduction Reaction

(2012) Jinhua Yang et al.   ACS Nano

Metastability and Structural Polymorphism in Noble Metals: The Role of Composition and Metal Atom Coordination in Mono- and Bimetallic Nanoclusters

(2012) Sergio I. Sanchez et al.   ACS Nano

Small Adsorbate-Assisted Shape Control of Pd and Pt Nanocrystals

(2012) Mei Chen et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Review of Pt-Based Bimetallic Catalysis: From Model Surfaces to Supported Catalysts

(2012) Weiting Yu et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Surface lattice-engineered bimetallic nanoparticles and their catalytic properties

(2012) Jianbo Wu et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Stabilization and compressive strain effect of AuCu core on Pt shell for oxygen reduction reaction

(2012) Jinhua Yang et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Common volume functions and diffraction line profiles of polyhedral domains

(2012) Alberto Leonardi et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED CRYSTALLOGRAPHY

Simulation and Modeling of Nanoparticle Surface Strain

(2012) Kenneth R. Beyerlein et al.   JOURNAL OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY

Growth and Characterization of Strained and Alloyed Type-II ZnTe/ZnSe Core–Shell Nanocrystals

(2012) Simon M. Fairclough et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Lattice Strain Distributions in Individual Dealloyed Pt–Fe Catalyst Nanoparticles

(2012) Lin Gan et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Balance of Nanostructure and Bimetallic Interactions in Pt Model Fuel Cell Catalysts: In Situ XAS and DFT Study

(2012) Daniel Friebel et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Carbon Monoxide-Assisted Synthesis of Single-Crystalline Pd Tetrapod Nanocrystals through Hydride Formation

(2012) Yan Dai et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Iodide-Mediated Control of Rhodium Epitaxial Growth on Well-Defined Noble Metal Nanocrystals: Synthesis, Characterization, and Structure-Dependent Catalytic Properties

(2012) Brian T. Sneed et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Yolk–Shell Nanocrystal@ZIF-8 Nanostructures for Gas-Phase Heterogeneous Catalysis with Selectivity Control

(2012) Chun-Hong Kuo et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

An Unconventional Role of Ligand in Continuously Tuning of Metal–Metal Interfacial Strain

(2012) Yuhua Feng et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Role of Electronic Perturbation in Stability and Activity of Pt-Based Alloy Nanocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction

(2012) Seung Jun Hwang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Icosahedral Platinum Alloy Nanocrystals with Enhanced Electrocatalytic Activities

(2012) Jianbo Wu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Syntheses of Water-Soluble Octahedral, Truncated Octahedral, and Cubic Pt–Ni Nanocrystals and Their Structure–Activity Study in Model Hydrogenation Reactions

(2012) Yuen Wu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Octahedral PtNi Nanoparticle Catalysts: Exceptional Oxygen Reduction Activity by Tuning the Alloy Particle Surface Composition

(2012) Chunhua Cui et al.   NANO LETTERS

Pt–Au Alloying at the Nanoscale

(2012) Valeri Petkov et al.   NANO LETTERS

Electrocatalyst approaches and challenges for automotive fuel cells

(2012) Mark K. Debe   NATURE

Structurally ordered intermetallic platinum–cobalt core–shell nanoparticles with enhanced activity and stability as oxygen reduction electrocatalysts

(2012) Deli Wang et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Stepwise Evolution of Spherical Seeds into 20-Fold Twinned Icosahedra

(2012) M. R. Langille et al.   SCIENCE

Strain-release mechanisms in bimetallic core–shell nanoparticles as revealed by Cs-corrected STEM

(2012) Nabraj Bhattarai et al.   SURFACE SCIENCE

Alloy tetrahexahedral Pd–Pt catalysts: enhancing significantly the catalytic activity by synergy effect of high-index facets and electronic structure

(2012) Yu-Jia Deng et al.   Chemical Science

Bimetallic Nanocrystals: Liquid-Phase Synthesis and Catalytic Applications

(2011) Dingsheng Wang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Synthesis of Concave Palladium Nanocubes with High-Index Surfaces and High Electrocatalytic Activities

(2011) Jiawei Zhang et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Electrocatalytic Properties of Strained Pd Nanoshells at Au Nanostructures: CO and HCOOH Oxidation

(2011) María G. Montes de Oca et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Synergistic Effect of Ag and Pd Ions on Shape-Selective Growth of Polyhedral Au Nanocrystals with High-Index Facets

(2011) Toan Trong Tran et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Nanocrystals Composed of Alternating Shells of Pd and Pt Can Be Obtained by Sequentially Adding Different Precursors

(2011) Hui Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Amine-Assisted Synthesis of Concave Polyhedral Platinum Nanocrystals Having {411} High-Index Facets

(2011) Xiaoqing Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Atomic-Resolution Spectroscopic Imaging of Ensembles of Nanocatalyst Particles Across the Life of a Fuel Cell

(2011) Huolin L. Xin et al.   NANO LETTERS

Shape and Composition-Controlled Platinum Alloy Nanocrystals Using Carbon Monoxide as Reducing Agent

(2011) Jianbo Wu et al.   NANO LETTERS

One-step synthesis of magnetically recyclable Au/Co/Fe triple-layered core-shell nanoparticles as highly efficient catalysts for the hydrolytic dehydrogenation of ammonia borane

(2011) Kengo Aranishi et al.   Nano Research

The contribution of lattice strain to core-level binding energy shifts in metal nanoparticles: Generality and origin of the shifts

(2011) Paul S. Bagus et al.   Computational and Theoretical Chemistry

Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Single-Crystalline Palladium Nanocrystals

(2010) Wenxin Niu et al.   ACS Nano

Communications: Exceptions to the d-band model of chemisorption on metal surfaces: The dominant role of repulsion between adsorbate states and metal d-states

(2010) Hongliang Xin et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Evolution of Structure and Chemistry of Bimetallic Nanoparticle Catalysts under Reaction Conditions

(2010) Feng Tao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Seed-Mediated Synthesis of Gold Nanocrystals with Systematic Shape Evolution from Cubic to Trisoctahedral and Rhombic Dodecahedral Structures

(2010) Hsin-Lun Wu et al.   LANGMUIR

Multimetallic Au/FePt3Nanoparticles as Highly Durable Electrocatalyst

(2010) Chao Wang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Epitaxial overgrowth of platinum on palladium nanocrystals

(2010) Majiong Jiang et al.   Nanoscale

Lattice-strain control of the activity in dealloyed core–shell fuel cell catalysts

(2010) Peter Strasser et al.   Nature Chemistry

Oxygen reduction in nanoporous metal–ionic liquid composite electrocatalysts

(2010) J. Snyder et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Exploration of crystal strains using coherent x-ray diffraction

(2010) Wonsuk Cha et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Strain and coordination effects in the adsorption properties of early transition metals: A density-functional theory study

(2010) Sebastian Schnur et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Discrete plasticity in sub-10-nm-sized gold crystals

(2010) He Zheng et al.   Nature Communications

Nonspherical Noble Metal Nanoparticles: Colloid-Chemical Synthesis and Morphology Control

(2009) Tapan K. Sau et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

General trend for adsorbate-induced segregation of subsurface metal atoms in bimetallic surfaces

(2009) Carl A. Menning et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Predicted Trends of Core−Shell Preferences for 132 Late Transition-Metal Binary-Alloy Nanoparticles

(2009) Lin-Lin Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Icosahedral Face-Centered Cubic Fe Nanoparticles: Facile Synthesis and Characterization with Aberration-Corrected TEM

(2009) Tao Ling et al.   NANO LETTERS

Towards the computational design of solid catalysts

(2009) J. K. Nørskov et al.   Nature Chemistry

Alloys of platinum and early transition metals as oxygen reduction electrocatalysts

(2009) J. Greeley et al.   Nature Chemistry

Coherent X-ray diffraction imaging of strain at the nanoscale

(2009) Ian Robinson et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Monodisperse Icosahedral Ag, Au, and Pd Nanoparticles: Size Control Strategy and Superlattice Formation

(2008) Qingbo Zhang et al.   ACS Nano

Hydrothermal Syntheses of Gold Nanocrystals: From Icosahedral to Its Truncated Form

(2008) J. Xu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Nanoalloys:  From Theory to Applications of Alloy Clusters and Nanoparticles

(2008) Riccardo Ferrando et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Pt-Catalyzed Growth of Ni Nanoparticles in Aqueous CTAB Solution

(2008) Marek Grzelczak et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Hydrothermal Synthesis of Monodispersed Octahedral Gold Nanocrystals with Five Different Size Ranges and Their Self-Assembled Structures

(2008) Chia-Chien Chang et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Shape Adjustment between Multiply Twinned and Single-Crystalline Polyhedral Gold Nanocrystals:  Decahedra, Icosahedra, and Truncated Tetrahedra

(2008) Daeha Seo et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Platinum Metal Catalysts of High-Index Surfaces: From Single-Crystal Planes to Electrochemically Shape-Controlled Nanoparticles

(2008) Na Tian et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Utilization of the Three-Dimensional Volcano Surface To Understand the Chemistry of Multiphase Systems in Heterogeneous Catalysis

(2008) Jun Cheng et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Epitaxial Growth of Heterogeneous Metal Nanocrystals: From Gold Nano-octahedra to Palladium and Silver Nanocubes

(2008) Feng-Ru Fan et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Ru–Pt core–shell nanoparticles for preferential oxidation of carbon monoxide in hydrogen

(2008) Selim Alayoglu et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Cohesive energy, properties, and formation energy of transition metal alloys

(2008) M. A. Turchanin et al.   POWDER METALLURGY AND METAL CERAMICS

Reaction-Driven Restructuring of Rh-Pd and Pt-Pd Core-Shell Nanoparticles

(2008) F. Tao et al.   SCIENCE

Capping agent free synthesis of PtSn bimetallic nanoparticles with enhanced electrocatalytic activity and lifetime over methanol oxidation

(2007) Longzhen Zheng et al.   CATALYSIS COMMUNICATIONS